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Ashton in talks with BT and Macquarie

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... Performance Fund by 1 September. To start the ball rolling, Raphaely confirmed that Ashton is in talks with dealer groups and platforms, including BT and Macquarie, to maximise the funds' exposure to the sector. "We're not yet on the platforms, but we've ...

New era in fee disclosure

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... which 'automates' compliance of the principles. For those who use the platform but also recommend products on other platforms, the group has sent them 'sample letters' to send to those clients. "We did think long and hard about this, specially in our ...

AXA super tops league tables

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... performers and 11 per cent ahead of the -7.3 per cent market average. Paying dividends this year for the AXA employer platforms, which manage collectively approximately $1.7 billion, was their Guaranteed Plus default options which are three-quarters ...

BGI targets adviser iShare apathy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... supporting advisers and we will focus more energy in the second half on getting to advisers," he said. He said institutional platforms, overall, are not well equipped to provide direct share trading, which could go someway to explaining the lacklustre ...

Social banking on the rise

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
Social banking platforms will capture 10 per cent of the worldwide retail lending and financial planning market in two years time, according to Gartner. The term, social banking includes trends such as green practices, social entrepreneurship and peer ...

Aviva cuts super to pension admin time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... set up pension accounts and allow clients to receive payments in three days, a fraction of the time needed on other platforms. Previously, financial advisers were forced to manually process the transfer form to move a client from super to a pension ...

CAAM eyes retail

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... since it first opened its doors to the Aussie insto market over a year ago. Today the fund manager is aiming to get into platforms and aim for bigger mandates. Richard Borysiewicz, country head for Australia and New Zealand CAAM, said the fund manager ...

Term deposits competition heats up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... interest rate. The term deposit is available through the Pursuit Select, Pursuit Core IOOF Portfolio Service and LifeTrack platforms.

Netwealth hatches baby wrap

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... 'baby wrap' style investment menu. The baby wrap is integrated into the firm's existing Investment Wrap and Super Wrap platforms and provides access to a shortened list of 40-50 investment grade funds at a lower cost through a rebate structure. The rebate ...

Perpetual to expand product line

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
... settle. The rates on offer in terms of term deposits are very attractive and a number of them are now being offered on platforms." He said Perpetual was developing the new range of Protected Investments to be launched at the end of this year and next. ...